Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrific time registered by Dumboman Ted Vogel, who had left his teammates far behind, the Crimson was able to fill up those vital gaps and take over the second spot. When Vogel crossed the line in 21:56.6 some spectators wondered if they were witnessing a new world record breaker or on the other hand if the course of 4.25 miles had been inaccurately measured. If the course is right, Vogel was running close to a flye minute mile all the way, up and down hill at that. The record four mile on a cinder track is only a couple...
...open ocean the long swells may pass almost unnoticed, since they do not rise to breaker height until the trough begins to scrape sea bottom. Then, as speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
...week before the Yale meet next Saturday, an almost exclusively Freshman Jayvee swimming team whipped St. George's School 49 to 17. Highlight of the afternoon was Chuck Holzier's time of one minute, seven and two-tenths seconds in the 100 yard breast stroke, a Freshman record breaker for that event...
...Right (alas, alas) is Reader Lambert, onetime collaborator with ghost-breaker Harry Price (The Haunting of Cashen's Gap). To a Rip Van Winklish TIME reporter in London: wake...
...Minnow, little Minnow, don't cry!" murmured Alexander Reither, whose "cream-colored piqué vest . . . revealed . . . the odd attractiveness that. . . made him a notorious breaker of hearts." "Loneliness," he assured Minnow, "is something you need not be afraid of! Not with your figure!" Minnow pocketed faithless Lover Reither's generous parting check, and burst into tears. "Oh, Alexander. . . .Oh, my darling, my Only. . . . Life is like a railway platform.... Au revoir, my dear...